Administering Zoning; In This Chapter; Zoning Overview; Basic Zones - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

Administering Zoning

In this chapter

Zoning overview

This chapter describes zoning and provides the procedures for managing zoning. The Zoning
Administration window provides two zoning options on the left pane:
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You can perform basic zoning and traffic isolation zones using Web Tools and Web Tools with the
EGM license.
Table 13
supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition.
TABLE 13
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Description
Live Fabric library scope
QoS support
Remove offline devices
Device to zone, zoneset participation
analysis
Rolling back an already activated zone
DB
Importing/Exporting of a zone DB
to/from file system in XML format

Basic zones

Basic zoning enables you to partition a storage area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices
that can access each other. For example, you can partition a SAN into two zones, winzone and
unixzone, so that the Windows servers and storage do not interact with UNIX servers and storage.
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Zoning overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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Zoning management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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Zone configuration and zoning database management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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Best practices for zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Basic zones
Traffic isolation zones
describes the zoning features that are no longer supported in Web Tools, but are
Zoning features supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition
DCFM Professional Edition
yes
yes
no
yes
no
no
Chapter
DCFM Enterprise Edition
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
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